The Forum thread that you are reading now is for any feedback, bug reports, and fixes, for Wary and Racy 5.5.

Note, one thing that we are targeting now is to improve setup for nVidia video cards. If you figure out a good procedure to get your nVidia card working, please post it here!_________________http://bkhome.org/news/

racy booted to desktop with lan, sound and video to correct res, volume control buttons not recognised but volume adjust in tray ok, tried puzzle games from ppm as test - ok

wary booted to desktop after xorg probe ok with sound and lan, no volume controls via buttons again as above, tray ok, installed simple samba via ppm ok but unable to select partition (wanted sdb1 but cannot select partition, takes first folder in partition, then fist folder in the next etc), was unable to select with typing /mnt/sdb1 either

both correctly saved to ext4 saves on ext2 partition

further testing later

ps - wary has visible screen redraw when switching between browser and desktop

I booted with puppy pfix=nox,ram and ran xorgwizard,chose nouveau, and
xwin to the desktop.
I installed quite a few pets and a google earth sfs, the proprietary
nvidia driver, then ran the remaster puppy live cd.

Once it had created the puppylivecdbuild directory I copied all the
files that I thought it needed from the cd to the directory (must have
guessed right because it worked) and finished the remaster script,
burned the remastered iso to dvd.
I'm running from the remaster now.

Fresh manual frugal install of Racy 5.5 on the trusty old Athlon XP box.Sound and internet good on initial boot.....incorrect resolution of 1280x1024 with the "vesa" driver.
Quickest remedy for me is to copy over a known good xorg.conf immediately after making a savefile. Presto, 1440x900 resolution with the correct "nouveau" driver.
This old Nvidia card is no longer supported by an official Nvidia driver so nouveau is as good as it gets.
All else looking good so far.

WARNING: the glibc upgrade is not-reversible: removing the upgrade by PPM does not work and if you remove the upgrade the wary installed gets unusable.

The glibc upgrade is useful to get a working firefox 19.0 but it corrupts locales. Running "locale" in terminal it exits in:

"Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: no such file or directory"

I had two Gtk warnings installing a usbflash drive after glibc upgrade due to corrupting of locales. But the usb flashdrive seems to work. Is there any workaround for this problem? What other errors can I get after glibc upgrade? I know that I tried a not-standard procedure but I don't know other ways of getting a latest working firefox in wary 5.5 if you don't use glibc upgrade. Perhaps I should better use a older browser before version 18.0 of firefox. What do you think?

EDIT: solved! In /etc/profile I have set at the end:

Code:

export LC_ALL=C

Now running "locale" in terminal I have no errors after glibc upgrade.Last edited by watchdog on Mon 04 Mar 2013, 11:08; edited 2 times in total

Racy 5.5 hates both machines, mouse lockup on laptop at 50%, corrupt save files, shutdown ends oddly and differently if reboot verses shutdown, xorgwizard fails to return from neverland NV.pet never seems to 'take' screen size not supported by monitor, and reset prompts are centered underneath monitor supplied WARNING message, so unable to get around it, the long supported Ctrl-Alt reset of X is non-functional

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